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[cleolinda]

I can't stop listening to the V for Vendetta soundtrack at this point, which makes this the second Dario Marianelli score in a row that I've gotten hooked on. I'm even to the point in my predictably cyclical obsessions where I would like to listen to something else, maybe some nice Garbage or at least something with guitars and maybe even some

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[metonymy]

Well said, and a very positive way to think about it (although I personally just say "Fuck 'em all" to negative and non-constructive comments).

Also, I think you should call it V/XVM... except then it's V in 1,985 minutes. Oops. Not such a brilliant idea after all!

[christigilly]

Teehee. Icon love!

[metonymy]

Thanks! I got it from ladysorka.

[piratesorka]

I made a mistake once as a teacher when I let my senior class students fill out a questionaire about my class. All were lovely except one that was very lukewarm and the other that out and out called me a bitch and such.

Do I remember the good ones? Oh nooooo, not a bit. It was the bad one that I stewed over the most.

This is why I laugh about the idea of giving anything but positive feedback to a fic writer. No body really wants a critic. Once, over one of my crackfic ( YES, it was CRACKFIC...thats what you get with talking private parts of two men!) Someone sent me a comment that I was totally unrealistic. *headdesks*
Some celebrities never read their reviews, its too awful if its negative. So I guess this whole feedback thing is a crapshoot overall.

[cleolinda]

You know, I'm a big supporter of constructive criticism in the rewrite phase, because you actually have a shot at being able to improve the work at that point. It's when the thing is finished and done and on the shelves that I'm starting to realize it's pointless, because there's nothing I can really do about it by then. And while I could, technically, go back and change things in an online piece, I tend to think of it as "on the shelf" for better or worse at that point.

[ter369]

It's when the thing is finished and done and on the shelves that I'm starting to realize it's pointless, because there's nothing I can really do about it by then.

... you can keep it mind when you're in the middle of the next project, making choices.

[cleolinda]

Well, yes, that's true. And part of what I was trying to get at by harping on the "you *do* need to listen to criticism" bit, because I don't want it to sound like I'm too delicate even for that. But I did feel like there was a point when I was dwelling too much on something I couldn't change, rather than looking forward to something I could.

[majormeg7]

I'm part of a writing workshop for my senior thesis and even though I know all the people there really well, and even when the negative feedback I recieve is helpful and not remotely mean, I still feel like going home and eating a pint of swirly ice cream to comfort myself. So yeah, you aren't the only one who feels this way. Writing is part of you ao it is hard to separate a criticism of writing from a criticism of you. (you in this case being the general you...not the YOU CLEOLINDA JONES YOU)

On the upside, now that I've begun to equate bad feedback with eating a pint of swirly ice cream, bad feedback is starting to look good.

[raanve]

Because I can't be the only writer who feels such deep, crippling fear that she can't even open Word in the morning.

You aren't.

Thanks for this.

[sigma7]

You're a thoughtful, responsive, conscientious artist. Goes with the territory. And you're willing to listen to feedback and you're aware of the virtue of becoming a better writer. Problem is, on the World Wide Intarwub(s), you're going to get a lot of feedback that doesn't even approach construction, especially given your raised profile. You've achieved something, which means people will want to knock you down. It's social physics.

You can be open to the constructive criticism, but the noise -- and it is just noise -- is going to sting. But what you've got to give is yours and yours alone, and the world's a poorer place without it. And I think you know that.

And if I had a few extra bucks floating around the place, I'd buy you this.

[cleolinda]

Dude, I am so seriously saving up for that. The worst part is, Jess asked me to tell him what I thought about it (after I told him what a huge fangirl of his site[s] I am), and I haven't been able to buy it yet.

[graydown]

First, I've found that the best way for me to deal with criticism is to pitch a lot of it... Keeping in mind context and source, a lot of it will always be useless.

Second, Cleolinda's movie summaries are not too long, either. I'm always sad when they end.

Third, your user icon rules, and I want to steal it. Please?

[sigma7]

I agree, ditto, and but of course!